Religion & Spirituality - 6 February 2007

Or will I be desroyed puff gone and please don't try and save me its too late!

2007-02-06 04:37:48 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm posting this in R&S because I figure a lot of church goers are here - and might be able to provide an answer.

Every six months we do something to thank our volunteers. We've put on a couple of ice cream socials. And we've also given away little trinkets (the last was an Angel Coin). Our budget only allows for about $250.00 - and there will be anywhere from 50 to 100 people attending - so it's hard. The ice cream socials have worked well - but we were hoping to do something new. The next event will be in August - and we can either do it in a park - or in space at the church. Any suggestions? If you have hosted this kind of thing - what have you done?

Just another note that our church puts on a very fancy dinner/dance event for anybody who tithes regularly. So we're not cheap when it comes to honoring folks. The volunteer recognition is new - and give aways have been more of a token of recognition.

2007-02-06 04:34:52 · 10 answers · asked by liddabet 6

St. Paul describes the proper way to worship in his 1st letter to the gentile church in Corinth (14:26-40). (See the passage below.)

Does this describe worship in your church?

"When you come together, everyone has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. All of these must be done for the strengthening of the church. If anyone speaks in a tongue, two—or at the most three—should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and God.

Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged. The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets. For God is not a God of disorder but of peace.

2007-02-06 04:34:50 · 3 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7

A load of crap by any other name still stinks like a bigot.

Scriptures say exactly why the wrath of God abides on the homosexuals:
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who withhold the truth in unrighteousness.... because when they knew God they glorified Him not as God,.... Professing themselves to wise, they became fools, ..... Wherefore God gave them up to uncleaness...to dishonor their bodies among themselves...Who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worship and served the creature more than the Creator... FOR THIS CAUSE God gave them up to vile affections....and likewise the men also, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men with men,... receiving in themselves THE JUST RECOMPENSE FOR THEIR ERROR,... God gave then over to a reprobate mind,.... filled with all unrighteousness, ...full of envy, murder, deceit,....haters of God,...proud,...without understanding,...who, KNO

2007-02-06 04:33:33 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-06 04:33:00 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-06 04:30:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

You say you cant see god so that means he isnt there but i cant see your brain so i guess it means that thats not there either just asking

2007-02-06 04:29:32 · 30 answers · asked by Lena 2

If someone says 2+2=5, we could mathematically disprove that statement, and prove that the person is wrong.

With religious beliefs, how do we do that - how do we go about proveing or disproveing someone is wrong?

2007-02-06 04:29:01 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it about time Christians stood up and said that marriage is for having children?

2007-02-06 04:28:53 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-06 04:27:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Since Christians seem to have no criteria for accepting the Bible as factual all of these phenomena have as much backing as the Bible, if not more. In fact if I became a Christian I’m not certain if I could figure out what not to believe in.

Question 2: If I became a Christian would I have to believe everything?

Questions 3: What would happen if I tried to believe in everything that had as much factual content and scientific support as the Bible?

2007-02-06 04:26:17 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

How do you feel about male to female(mtf) or female to male(ftm) transexuals. Do you think they should just live there life, so they can be happy. Tell me what you think??

2007-02-06 04:24:56 · 9 answers · asked by ♥Jesse♥ 2

think they do enough to condemn violence? Or do you think that the peaceful Muslim population, is silenced by the "few bad apples."?

2007-02-06 04:22:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think not.

2007-02-06 04:22:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-06 04:20:16 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am sure that it should be banned by the Christian churches because at the beginning of it, it talks about EVOLUTION. And we all know EVOLUTION does not exist, well ok it does but only in bacteria and other things, but certainly not humans because God snapped his fingers and farted and out came man and woman.

2007-02-06 04:19:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

He didn't even know Jesus. He wrote most of the stuff I've had a problem with in the new testament. Basically this dude wanted to make his version of Christianity. How do you know his version is right?

You know as well as I do that there was a lot of persecution toward early Christians. And you may also know that there were many sects.

If God gives us freewill, how do you know the right teachings came to be well known? Seriously. Protestant Christians want to bring back the original teachings of Jesus without the corruption of the Catholic Church, right? Well the Catholic Church (politicians) chose these texts to be in the Cannon. They had an agenda.

Shouldn't you at least consider that with their freewill, they may have corrupted the true story of Jesus? If you know Jesus in your heart, than this probably won't be a big blow to you, as I'm sure Pauls verses probably don't always sit right with you either.

So why do you let the Catholic Church continue to tell you who Jesus was?

2007-02-06 04:19:11 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think there are some people who realize they are predisposed to sexual urges they are ashamed of (whatever that might be). So they figure they will become priests and that way they won't be able to indulge any of it. Then they get into the priesthood and they do it anyway. What do you think?

2007-02-06 04:18:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some people say when they pray God tells them the answer. When I pray, I don't hear anything back. Sometimes I think I do, but I think it might also be me telling myself what I want to hear. I need answers to lots of things, or rather advice to ease my concerns.
Have you always heard God respond to you?

2007-02-06 04:16:52 · 34 answers · asked by I scream for ICE CREAM!! 3

I was thinking about that horrible email that does the rounds, about John Lennon, captain of the Titanic, and the eggs in the trunk of a smashed car. My question is, at what point does it stop being the wrath of God, and start being just another tragedy?

2007-02-06 04:15:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why do they do it if so? I know it's not real, but I want the Christian take on this.

2007-02-06 04:13:06 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-06 04:13:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Idealism says there is a way things should be and there is a way things are. The end goal of the way things are is to be the way they should be, so there is some inherent teleology built into idealism.

Many atheists see a bright future of humanity dumping religion and embracing atheism, which will usher in a new dawn for humanity. This bright-future optimism is for some atheists the ideal, or the way things should be.

If atheism assumes some form of idealism, how can it dump idealism in other realms such as ethics? C.S. Lewis realzied this contradiction in mere Christianity when he denied the existence of God based on the evil in the world. He pointed that such things require some objective (ideal) moral standars for evaluating the world, and in his case a "Moral Law Giver" was neccessary to have objective standards.

2007-02-06 04:11:13 · 11 answers · asked by The1andOnlyMule 2

please answer before 12th of february so that b'for i start my new year.....

2007-02-06 04:10:53 · 10 answers · asked by pithu is cool 1

2007-02-06 04:09:45 · 11 answers · asked by Subconsciousless 7

I am prepared to give you a cool Million $$ if you can raise somebody from the dead by the laying on of hands, with any means other than CPR.

2007-02-06 04:09:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

We can't hardly ask a serious question about religion without a dozen atheists filling the board with "you're stupid" and "God is a fairy tale" and "it doesn't really matter cause it's all a big lie."

I understand you're trying to educate us, and I'm not saying you don't have a right to respond. But a respectful answer that deals with the question goes further than clever one-liner.

Also, I know you get tired of religious folks doing this to you, and I for one make an effort to give respectful answers. If we're all so tired of people doing it to us, why can't we take the high ground and stop doing it ourselves?

Comprehensive and challenging debate cannot happen until we get past recycled sound bites.

2007-02-06 04:06:52 · 26 answers · asked by cirque de lune 6

Because I find that a little sick.

2007-02-06 04:05:34 · 34 answers · asked by Autumn 2

2007-02-06 04:05:20 · 2 answers · asked by FRED M 1

You think he is cured?

2007-02-06 04:04:06 · 14 answers · asked by Dane 6